Last week when ChatGPT added scheduled tasks, I set a task to write a haiku for me each morning based on Hayao Miyazaki movies. It has been a fun experiment. Whenever I get one of the haikus, I smile, which was what I hoped would happen.
Here are the first five:
Through forest winds soar,
A catbus hums in the night,
Magic fills the air.
Beneath soft moonlight,
Spirits dance on quiet hills,
Dreams take gentle flight.
Sky castles arise,
Whispers of the wind bring tales,
Nature’s heart beats strong.
Howl’s voice on the breeze,
A lone castle seeks the stars,
Love breaks every curse.
On calm ocean waves,
A young fish dreams of the shore,
Bound by love and light.
I also like that even for a business-y “scheduled tasks” feature, we can squeeze a little creativity out of it.
jack @manton The ChatGPT reminders do look quite useful (& apparently fun 😂)
Tom Loughlin Lest anybody get the wrong notion, these are clearly formulaic haikus; three poetic lines strung together in 5-7-5 fashion. There's no sense of an experienced human moment in any of them. As a ChatGPT exercise I am sure these are fun to see created, but no one should take them for actual haikus. These merely perpetuate the stereotypical way haikus are perceived in western culture.
Manton Reece @apoorplayer Yeah, let me also go on the record and say robots will not replace humans in poetry. It's not to be taken too seriously. Hope it doesn't offend.
Tom Loughlin No not at all. I do realize you're experimenting and throwing stuff on the ChatGPT wall to see what sticks. My larger concern about AI is simply that people will come to take AI-generated content for "the real thing." That's the slippery slope of all AI-generated content IMHO.
Tom Loughlin And FWIW some of the lines are quite lyrical! Each line in and of itself is interesting and poetic in its style. They just don't add up to anything one might call a haiku.